June 19, 2010
Congratulations to Eric Norton and Jim Turko, both completed the Villanova Lean Six Sigma certificate course -- we plan to apply the principles, methodologies, and tools to our business process improvement activities. The 50 personal development units (PDUs) earned them enough total PDUs to renew their PMP certifications with PMI. Eric's PMP extends through September 2014 and Jim's PMP is good until September 2013. Nice work!
Eric's and Jim's certifications and pursuit of knowledge are not unique within Highlands Consulting, two-thirds of our firm possess a PMP certification. We obtained our certifications because we like what we do. We seek interesting continuing education to refine and improve our services. We bring this knowledge and these skills to our clients. And we can do the same for you and your projects.
May 3, 2010
From the desk of Eric Norton
Why does a management consulting firm have a blog? We created this blog as a way to share ideas, accomplishments, tips, and tools in a "casual" format. We spend a great deal of time and effort writing very formal deliverables. This blog is not a deliverable. It's a place where we can express our personalities a little and share something you may find useful. What do we mean when we say "ideas, accomplishments, tips, and tools?"
- Ideas - this represents a catch all for random thoughts we may post. Things we think about. This is where we'll periodically think out loud.
- Accomplishments - we'll share with you our notable activities, significant events, and interesting endeavors throughout the year.
- Tips - through our numerous projects and the vast array of continuing education we take, we are bound to want to share when we learn something new.
- Tools - every now and then we create or discover a useful tool that may help you as well.
So, I mentioned the blog is casual, but we do have a few rules. We'll be brief, you'll hear from each of us at some point, we'll post often…but not too often, we'll make our posts interesting and hopefully relevant to you.
April 30, 2010
Spring is a time of change, and we have taken that to heart here at Highlands Consulting this year. We have a lot of recent changes to share with you.
First, we have a new office! Due to continued project successes and growth, we needed a bigger space. As of May 1, 2010, we are now located in the Wells Fargo Center on Capitol Mall. Here is the new contact information
400 Captil Mall, Suite 1540
Sacramento, CA 95814
(916) 448-4300 Office
(916) 448-4301 Fax
Next on the list is our new website! We are proud of the updated look-and-feel and would like to thank our web developer Jason Dorn for all of his great work. We have expanded the content and moved some things around to make finding what you need even easier than before.
As part of the updated website, we have added this blog! Our hopes are to share with the public sector and management consulting communities our experiences and insights. This will also give you an opportunity to get to know our staff better as they will all be contributing.
We're on Twitter! You can follow us @FollowHCG. Partly, we hope to use Twitter to bring people here to the blog. More interestingly though we are attempting to follow leaders in State government, consulting, business analysis, project management, and emergency management and share their tweets of knowledge with you.
We are excitied about all of these things and truly hope they bring us closer to our clients, partners, and future employees. Feel free to leave a comment below or send us an e-mail.
